Evaluation of lexical representation formalisms
Walter M. P. Daelemans, H.J.B.M. van der Linden · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 1992
With the structure and organisation of the lexicon at the centre of attention in computational linguistics the last few years, we have witnessed the appearance of various proposals for lexical representation formalisms and mechanisms.We discuss formalism-internal and formalism-external criteria that allow us to compare and evaluate a number of these proposals ( typed feature structures, DATR, the hierarchical lexicon, default unification, object-oriented representation).This evaluation results in a position with respect to the role of inheritance in the design of lexicons.' We wish to thank Hans Boers with whom we worked on DATR.Furthermore, we thank Gosae Bouma, Koenraad de Smedt, other participants of the second CLIN meeting, and pnrticipants of the ITK~LIKE Colloquium for comments and diacussion.